A Primavera P6 schedule is a powerful tool for sequencing and tracking project activities, but relying solely on the schedule for all project information is a critical limitation. While P6 excels at mapping out tasks, durations, and dependencies, it does not capture the full complexity of project delivery. Here’s why additional registers—such as those for […]
A well-structured schedule is not just a delivery tool — it’s a strategic asset, especially during the bidding phase or early project development. The earlier you engage with a realistic, logic-driven programme, the better you can: Validate delivery assumptions Expose risks and dependencies Understand resource needs Align stakeholders on scope and sequencing The image above
General layout of yEd for LogicReader. Menu Bar: Main Menu “Select Elements“: Use to filter nodes and links “Palette“: List of LogicReader pallets used for planning , scheduling and process mapping. You can also create your own palete. “Structure View“: is the equivalent of the WBS structure. Editing WIndow: Main window you create and view
How Transformers Power Large Language Models This post breaks down how transformers work in LLMs, highlighting their use of embeddings, positional encoding, and multi-head self-attention to understand language. Unlike older models, transformers process words in parallel and capture complex relationships, making them efficient and powerful for real-world AI tasks. Logic Driven vs Resources Driven Relationships
Keep it simple Clear Storytelling Use it to instigate further reading and investigation, therefore making the complex engaging and easy to understand by incrementally increase complexity.
The following methods could reduce schedule modification time by up to 80% compared to using live meetings, Excel files, or PDFs: Adding new activities and their durations Adding new links, including lag/lead and relationship type, with the ability to identify circular links Adding WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements Removing activities or relationships Identifying which activities
Use Network diagram to capture and track progress updates and schedule changes. Read Post »
Scenario: You have a project where your inputs are linked to multiple external schedules. You want to investigate whether each input in your schedule has a justified list of external predecessors, or if they are simply linked to an output milestone without any underlying plan to justify the date. Tools like Primavera P6 allow schedulers to
How to perform Cross-project dependency validation and Logic analysis. Read Post »
Open your Schedule(s). Make sure that the “|” character is not used anywhere in your schedule. Make sure the full stop character “.” is not used in your WBS code as the above characters are used to split your csv files. Select “Do not show time” and “4-digit year” in the settings. Run your Batch
Convert a P6 Schedule into an editable Network Diagram. Read Post »
Create your network diagram (see detailed video for all the features). Open and run LogicReader.accde. This will create two files: An .xls file that can be imported into MSP An updated *.graphml file with estimated start and finish dates for the activities. Note that the scheduling module has limitations and the results should be checked. It
Convert a Network Diagram into an MSP or P6 Schedule. Read Post »
Use regular expressions to find nodes or edges with specific text in the “Label” or their “Data Property”. Here are some basic regex patterns Wildcard (.): Matches any single character except newline. Example: “a.c” matches “abc”, “a1c”, “a@c”, etc. Character classes [ ]: Match any single character within the brackets. Example: “[aeiou]” matches any vowel.
How to search and filter for activities and links using “Regular Expressions”. Read Post »
Quickly isolated activities, external to the project, then automatically find out where they link to your WBS structure.
Run Properties Mapper A, B, 4, 5 Go to Tools => Select Elements Tick “Clear Selection First” From “Select” pick “Data Property” From “Data Property” pick “Select Activities to review” In “Text” add “-Yes” From “Match Text” pick “infix match” Click Run 9a. Select all the parents of the selected activities by 9.b. Unselect clear
Comparing changes to the critical paths between two schedules Read Post »
